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civics Chapter 1
vocab
Term | Definition |
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civics | the study of the rights and duties of citizens |
citizenship | rights and duties of members of a state |
citizen | community members who owes loyalty to the government and its entitled to protection from it |
service economy | where the majority of people ear their living by providing a service rather tan manufacturing a product |
value | the general principles or beliefs people use to make judgements and decisions |
popular sovereignty | the notion that power lies with the people |
institution | sets of ideas that people have about relationships,obligations,roles,and functions of society |
naturalization | a legal process to detain citizen |
alien | a noncitizen |
immigrat | a person who moves permanently to a new county |
deport | to send an alien or immigrant back to his or her own county |
government | the ruling authority for a community |
public policy | the course of atetion the government |
budget | a plan for making and spending money |
democracy | a government in which citizens hold the power to rule |
direct democracy | a form of democracy in which the people vote first hand |
representative democracy | a government in which citizens choose a smaller group to govern on their behalf |
republic | a representative democracy where citizens choose their law makers |
monarchy | a government with a hereditary, single leader |
majority rule | political principle providing that a majority of the members of a community has the power to make laws binding upon all the people |
authoritarian | a government in which one leader for groups, person of persons having the power of government |
totalitarian | a system in which government control extends to almost all aspects of people lives |